After getting a phone call at midnight Saturday, Joyce Clark rushed the few blocks from her home to Grace Street and found the young man she helped raise lying in the road shot, bleeding and fighting for his life.

Each day, tens of thousands of motorists come upon the intersection of South College Road and Oleander Drive, deemed in a 2004 study as Wilmington’s “most congested.” And there they wait. But within a few years, the junction will look and operate much differently.

The New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office has charged a woman in connection with stealing steaks from a grocery store.<br>Nacola Williams McNeil, 40, was arrested Monday and charged with two counts of misdemeanor larceny, one count of felony larceny and one count of shoplifting. She was released on a $5,000 unsecured bond.